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Information about the Region

Location

Lubelskie Region is situated in the south-eastern part of Poland. It borders with the following regions: Podlaskie, Mazowieckie, Świętokrzyskie, Podkarpackie and with countries Ukraine and Belarus.

In the region are located six roads and road and railway crossing borders: Kukuryki-Koroszczyn, Terespol and Sławatycze (border with Belarus) and Dorohusk, Zosin and Hrebenne (border with Ukraine).

Superficies and administrative division

Lubelskie Region covers an area of 25 122 km 2 (which represents 8% of the whole country). Region is divided into 20 poviats, 4 major cities (Lublin, Biała Podlaska, Chełm, Zamość) and 213 gminas. There are 4122 villages and 41 cities. The biggest cities are: Lublin – 356 000 inhabitants, Chełm – 70 000, Zamość – 67 000, Biała Podlaska – 59 000, Puławy – 52 000.

Population

Region Lubelskie is inhabited by 2 179 600 people (5,7% of total population in Poland), 46,6% population lives in cities (61,9% in other regions). The most of people are inhabitants of villages (53,4%) and whole of region has a low of population density - 87 people per square km – (122 people per sq km in other regions).

Environment

Over 23% of total area of region is protected by law: 2 national parks, 17 landscape parks, 17 areas of protected landscape, 83 reserves of nature, over 1500 monuments of nature. Lubelskie spends much money for ecological investing – 5,2% general investing (4,6% in other regions).

The project „Regions of Poland” was realized in cooperation with the Offices of the Presidents of the 16 regions of Poland.

Design, coordination, realization – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

Contents – Offices of the Presidents of the Regions

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